Revit 2014 & ArchiCAD 17, please meet your friend SketchUp Pro 2013
So this is big news. Lots to read. I was too busy with my impending move to get this out the day everyone else was freaking out about SketchUp Pro 2013. But that’s okay, news like this deserves to be...
View ArticleGuest Blogger Shivang Rajvir: 3 Responses to Technology
The days and nights we used to spend creating drawings by hand during the early days of college are still fresh in my mind. It was then that this question first hit my mind hard, and it is still with...
View ArticleArchiCAD 17 Hotfix #1, ArchiCAD 16 Hotfix #4, AND downloading ArchiCAD 17
I’ve got three items to report today as I sit on the floor of my childhood bedroom, watching my youngest daughter open and close the door to my oldest brother’s old bedroom… instead of taking the nap...
View ArticleHow BIM connects with your client’s clients: a Tour of an Exhibition via BIMx.
Today on Facebook, I saw a link to a 3D tour of an Exhibition at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. Carl Larsson – Friends & Enemies Grab your iOS or Android device, or download the file to...
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World’s First 3D Ancient City Tour Comes to Life in Bergama
BERGAMA, TURKEY, July 18, 2013 – Bilkom has launched a project called “History comes to life in 3D” using 3D modeling software and mobile technology from GRAPHISOFT and Abvent. As a result, the...
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Of Bows and Arrows and Machine Guns
I was reading The Economist today. The specific article was on the origins of warfare and about whether humans are inherently warlike. The good news is that we are probably not predisposed to war,...
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Architects are really just asking for Haptic Feedback
I spend a lot of time thinking about architects and their tools. Why? Because architects struggle to separate themselves from their tools. We see this regularly with job postings that stress software...
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The irony of using technology to write about the benefits of technology
On Tuesday my plan was to eat breakfast, make dinner, take care of some admin stuff (emails, responding to post comments, order new business cards, etc.), finish a blog post, and then spend the rest of...
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From Film to Digital Cameras & a Free Copy of OrthoGraph Architect 3D v7
I talk a lot about the future of practicing architecture. I’m really interested in how our tools and processes evolve. I am curious about what common frustrations we will soon no longer need to deal...
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The Structure Sensor for iPad and a game I want to play with my kids (or...
A fellow ArchiCAD user alerted me to the Kickstarter campaign for Structure Sensor. The Structure Sensor is an attachment to an iPad that gives the mobile device the ability to sense, understand, and...
View ArticleBIMx Docs Brings Fully Integrated BIM Projects to the iPhone/iPad
Jared’s note: here’s the official press release on BIMx Docs with a bunch of videos added in. I know this is a week old. It’s been a busy week. Whether you use ArchiCAD or some other BIM program,...
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Guest Blogger Willard Williams: Why I’m going to the AEC Hackathon
I have been trying to build something on-top of, inside of, and/or around my favorite VDC/BIM tools for many years now. I have wanted to build this and that, and all of these ideas require some expert...
View ArticleExhibition Design with BIMx – Nationalmuseum in Sweden, Revisited
Last year I wrote a post about a museum in Sweden that made a BIMx model of an exhibit, which they then shared on their website. Super cool. If you haven’t read that post check it out. It’s a great...
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AEC Hackathon 1.1 – Facebook HQ, Menlo Park, CA – March 14-16, 2014
Below is a press release about the AEC Hackathon 1.1 that was sent to me by Steve Holzer, one of the organizers of the event. Regular Shoegnome contributor Willard Williams attended the first event...
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Self-awareness vs Environmental-awareness: A working definition of BIM
The dividing line between CAD and BIM What is CAD (Computer Aided Design)? What is BIM (Building Information Modeling)? What is just 3D modeling? Where is the dividing line between CAD and BIM? This...
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The convergence of 25,000 years of Art History leads to BIM
I recently gave a three hour talk about Building Information Modeling (BIM) to a room full of people in South Carolina who had one of two major interests: building enclosures or specifications. Finding...
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One day I will teach this architecture class: Sketching without Sketching
Preamble: As always this is just a small piece of the bigger issues rolling around my head. Don’t worry; I’m working on about five or six more posts that all connect to this one. More to come. Like...
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Making BIM the Best Tool for Design
I originally wrote this article for the AIA Small Project Practitioners Journal. When we talk about BIM, we typically focus on the benefits to production (faster, more complete, linked drawings),...
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Unconscious BIM and Ugly BIM
You probably noticed a surprise drop in my writing output over the past few months. 2014 is a time of transition for me—I moved to Seattle, I am about to move again within Seattle (buying a house, so...
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Design like an Architect
“I haven’t ever – I mean EVER – personally met an architect who I thought was a good designer who didn’t sketch.” —some architect other than me I seem to be reading and hearing a lot about how we just...
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